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I've been having this trouble for a while. I've tried several times to get it to work, and I cannot find the solution online so I figured I would need to ask.
I have a box running ESXi, and on it I ...

Their advertisement is pretty confusing: Graphics-intensive applications can now be given an additional boost by allocating up to 2 GB of video memory per virtual machine.
I just want to confirm if ...

I have an ESXi 5.5.0 server with a single VM. When I run some benchmark on the VM there are 6% differences between times of different runs on the VM (each run around 250 seconds).
When I've run such ...

I have a VMWare Esxi 5.0 set up on a dedicated server that currently have 0 hard drive space on the host machine (call it Host1) and I am planning to migrate all the VMs to another dedicated server ...

I have an esxi host which several users will use as a development machine. Let's say that I have a host with 32 cores and 32 GB of RAM and 4-5 developers that will work on Ubuntu machines. The number ...

Alright, I'm going to attempt to explain my situation thoroughly so bear with me. My current state is this. I have a 500GB HDD that used to be in a server - it hosted VMs - and was one of two drives ...

We are using vSphere 5.5.0.
Using the vSphere Web Client, when I create a new VM or add a new NIC to an old VM, if I tick "connect" for the VM nentwork, the task is completed without error.
But when I ...

I am building an home server on a old PC (Core 2 Duo E6600 as processor, 4GB RAM, two hard disk, one for each VM), and I am having difficulties with one of my VM. I currently have two VMs on it, one ...

I have an ESXi 5.1 server configured as a NTP server and a local Windows Server 2008 R2 PC that aren't syncing. I've read that whenever an ESXi server is run as a client, it also acts as a server, so ...

I have an ESXI server and I connect with it using vSphere 5.1.1. We have several virtual machines on this server and each virtual machine is pre-installed with the builds of our software. This is a ...

So when using VMware Workstation 10 on your local computer there is a grid thumbnail view where you can see all your VMs displayed (live update small thumbnails) on like a 9*5 grid or something. Yet ...

When I try to create a clone from a virtual machine and doesn't change the hardware settings I have no problems.
But when I change the hardware settings, like Memory and Hard Disk I get this error: ...

Is there something I can do to or run on a VM or (in the case of a type-2 hypervisor) that would demonstrate, objectively, that there is a difference between type-1 and type-2 hypervisors?
I assume ...

For the last few weeks I have been reading a lot about OpenStack, Cloud Computing, virtualization, VMware tools and I have decided to try it. I would like to install, configure it and try it to see ...

I have installed vmware Esxi 5 on an x64 machine, and also created 3 different operating system on it. Is it possible to login and switch over the three operating systems without remote desktop ? I ...

I currently run Solaris 11.1 in ESXi 5.5, with a HBA (disk controller card) passed though to the OS via VMDirectPath I/O and a raidz pool (called Vault). The OS is running on a single deddicated SSD ...

One of our ESX 4.1 servers has a disk fault and is unable to recover. We then installed ESXI 5.1 and moved all virtual Machines to new Data Store.
Everything Fine, we had 7 Virtual servers, 6 of that ...

I have a server that is currently running Windows 2008 on one hard disk, with all data stored on a second hard disk. I'm looking to replace the OS, and would like to install a virtual hypervisor on ...

Since yesterday I suddenly stumbled upon a very absurd problem.
My setup is an ESXi 5.1 home server with two VMs: a Debian (for mail, printing, webhosting, telephony, and more) and a ZFSGuru (FreeBSD ...

I am planning on upgrading my ESXi host with a few new hard drives, and I was wondering if the following configuration might be ok or if you would suggest something different:
Boot from USB stick
2x ...

Over the past couple of weeks we've been experiencing some issues with our ESXi based VDI environment whereby Windows 7 Desktop images randomly freeze throughout the day.
This can happen on any VDI ...

Since ESXi does not support software RAID, the only option would be to use a hardware RAID controller. However, I would like to avoid buying one for a while, until I finally decide to keep using ESXi ...

I am currently running an ESXi server off a single, small hard drive for testing purposes, but I am now planning on buying a couple of new hard drives to set up RAID. Since these will be new drives, I ...

I want to virtualize one of my existing operating systems (Ubuntu Server 12.04) to use the VM in my new ESXi setup. I know that I can use the vmware converter standalone client on my Windows laptop to ...

I have a virtual machine which is a NAT/dhcp server, it has installed pfsense https://www.pfsense.org/ .
This vm has two network interfaces: one connected to the actual WAN, one to an internal LAN.
...

I have just installed ESXi 5.1 update 2 on my home server, but the host keeps disconnecting after a few seconds to a couple of minutes. I have gone through all the troubleshooting steps on the vmware ...

I am using the following python code to set the extra_config parameter bios.bootOrder:
#!/bin/env python
from pysphere import VIServer, VITask
from pysphere.resources import VimService_services as VI
...

I had virtual machine exported in OVF format
Then i went to vsphere client and click on Deploy OVF template.
Then i choose the ovf from my local window machine and vmware starts uploading that to my ...